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Morality; Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times (Hebrew)
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Preface and AcknowledgmentsINTRODUCTION Cultural Climate Change
PART ONE The Solitary Self
1; Loneliness2; The Limits of Self Help3; Unsocial Media4; The Fragile Family
PART TWO Consequences; The Market and the State
5; From "We" to "I"6; Markets Without Morals7; Consuming Happiness8; Democracy in Danger9; Identity Politics10; Time and Consequence
PART THREE Can We Still Reason Together?
11; Post Truth12; Safe Space13; Two Ways of Arguing14; Victimhood15; The Return of Public Shaming16; The Death of Civility
PART FOUR Being Human
17; Human Dignity18; Meaning19; Why Morality?20; Which Morality?21; Religion
PART FIVE The Way Forward
22; Morality Matters23; From "I" to "We"
EPILOGUE

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Author: Jonathan Sacks
In Morality, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks traces contemporary crises to a loss of a strong, shared moral code and elevation of self-interest over the common good. Sacks describes how morality has been outsourced to the market and the state, but neither is capable of showing people how to live. The work draws on a range of sources to demonstrate that there is no liberty without morality and no freedom without responsibility, arguing that all must play a part in rebuilding a common moral foundation.

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